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Everything you need to know about Sony's latest handheld console – the games, the hardware, the future – analysed and assessedThe first video game hardware launch of the year hits Europe on Wednesday. And while everyone seems to love the look and feel of the PS Vita, question marks remain...

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(Photo: CNN) Last night, the now-notorious Reddit troll Violentacrez, whom Gawker recently exposed as a 49-year-old Texas-based programmer named Michael Brutsch, appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 for God knows what reason. In the painfully awkward two-part interview, during which Mr. Cooper thankfully gave us a commercial break to collect ourselves...

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PS3, Sega, cert: 18, out nowToshihiro Nagoshi's Yakuza series is huge in Japan, but has only a cult following in the west. Many thought Dead Souls would never be released in Britain, but it's a genuinely good thing that it has. Kamurocho, the fictional Tokyo district that has starred in...

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"The sound of fear is all about building the tension before that moment happens." Dead Space 3 developers talk about the sound that drives the terror in the third-person horror shooter released today. [Read more]...

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"The purple dot is where I first lost my phone, the green dot is where we started Find My iPhone and the red is where we found my phone. Wild." -Mr. Mersereau Everyone pitches in when a lost iPhone is involved. How two friends, a stranger, and a legion of...

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Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Namco, cert: 18As a third-person "massively multiplayer online" (MMO) shooter from developer Trion Worlds, Defiance transcends both genre and narrative boundaries; the plot runs concurrently with a TV series of the same name broadcast on the Syfy channel. It's a broadly interesting story concerning the struggle...

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Struggling to find a way to spend the $25 Google Play credit that came with your shiny new Nexus 7? When it comes to games on the Android platform, Dead Space has always been an easy recommendation. Unfortunately it wasn't compatible with Google's Jelly Bean tablet at launch, but...

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A good morning to you, Arsians! It is I, The Dealmaster, and once again I sally forth with savings in my saddlebag! This Monday, I present to you another list of fine items at fine discounts, plucked from LogicBuy's long lists by me, The Dealmaster, who only occasionally refers to...

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PS3/Xbox 360/Wii/DS; £39.99; cert 12+; Disney InteractiveYou could count the number of decent licensed video games on one hand. But a surprise inclusion might be 2010's Toy Story 3, developed by Avalanche Studios, which combined the usual kiddie-focused platformer with a smart "Toybox" mode where players build their own levels.Toybox...

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Much like Google, The Pirate Bay and isoHunt are search engines that aim to index information posted on the Internet and make it findable to their users. Google’s YouTube shows even more similarities to torrent sites as it allows users to submit content, with the only difference being that YouTube...

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Fall must be the season for sea changes in the game industry. Just weeks after BioWare's founders retired, key Epic Games veteran and Design Director Cliff Bleszinski (known to many as just CliffyB) is hanging up his hat. He simply describes it as taking a "much needed break," which...

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In 1972, NASA scientists stuck a plaque on the Pioneer 10 space probe with information about human body structure, our sun's relative location in the galaxy, and a graphic depiction of hydrogen. A crash course on human civilization for an alien race to discover. If NASA asked me today...

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I lasted just over three hours on my first day in the fictional Russian state of Chernarus. I'm told this is quite good, but just leaving the beach alive was victory enough for me. I pulled free of the bloodied arms grabbing at me, but it was dumb luck...

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There are a few different music festivals in San Francisco and nearby — like the annual (FREE) Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and Treasure Island. But my favorite has to be Outside Lands, which just happens to be taking place this weekend. In part, that’s because beyond just having a great...

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As we continue to search for answers on what’s going on with the Twitter password reset situation, the company is giving us information very slowly. The situation is very complex, because the users who are getting the emails, if its not being sent to spam, think it’s a phishing scam...

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PS3, Xbox 360; Electronic Arts; £35.47-39.99Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewFuse is an alien substance that handily powers a breed of secret super-weapons, some of which your four-person team manages to get its hands on after the rest are stolen. Your job is to hunt down and shoot...

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On Tuesday, Danny Bilson dramatically stepped down as executive vice president of games at troubled publisher THQ – but not before giving the Guardian his final interview in the roleLast week, Danny Bilson, executive vice president of THQ, flew over to London to present a showcase of the company's current...

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We take a look at the fascinating new browser-game from Square Enix, which gives players the chance to create their own action adventuresIt is rare to be genuinely surprised by a new release these days. For all the bluster of the latest action adventures and role-playing extravaganzas, they all follow...

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With less week until the new iPhone 5 hits retail shelves, people are already lining up outside at least one Apple Store. The line outside Apple’s Fifth Avenue store in New York officially started eight days before the iPhone 5 launch date, reports Forbes, who interviewed some of the...

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Wait, don't kill him yet... I want him on our side! Robot Entertainment The worst thing about the tower defense genre just might be the waiting. You spend all that time between waves of bad guys carefully setting up a truly diabolical, maze-like series of threats and traps for...

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PS Vita; Sony; £29.78-£31.95Reading this on mobile? Click here to viewYour character has been taken prisoner by the crazed magician Magusar. Fortunately, the skeletal cage he or she has been locked in also contains Librom, a sentient book with angry-looking eyes and a collection of bloodthirsty stories in which you...

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Wild Blood: Gameloft has officially released the first full length gameplay trailer for its upcoming ‘Wild Blood’ title. The third person action game, Gameloft’s first powered by Unreal Engine, will feature a single-player campaign, as well as co-op and arena modes. VentureBeat has first impressions from an iPad demo:...

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PS3/Xbox 360/PC; £9.99; cert 12; Arkedo/SegaNow that creating triple-A games requires similar levels of investment to making movies, we should all be grateful Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network offer an outlet for maverick developers with big ideas but little resources.And developers don't come more maverick than Arkedo, a bunch...

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This was a normal week for Microsoft: nothing too crazy, yet issues could be found on all four burners. We were kept busy, but our hair never ignited. We love weeks like this. Before we dive into the issues, as always we reccommend that for a full tour de force of...

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I'll admit, I was not immediately drawn in by a recent hands-on demo of the upcoming Batman: Arkham Origins, currently scheduled for an October 25 launch on PC, Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U. Though the PR team presented the prequel to the first two Arkham games as a...

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I knew I should have killed that Screamer last time around... Undead Labs On the surface, Undead Labs' State of Decay feels like a conventional open world game. The zombie apocalypse title is set for an XBLA release some time in 2013, and it features both an interface and...